Rewriting the Body : Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter
by
Julia Simon
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Neue Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
ISBN-10
3631533764
ISBN-13
9783631533765
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 19th, 2004
Print length
295 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 21.00 x 1.60 cms
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The body has become a highly contested, political site in (post)modern literature and literary theory. In Angela Carter’s work the image of the body is constructed around the tension between a post-structuralist notion of gender fluidity and a feminist reclaiming of the female body as a source of pleasure and power. This study examines the body politics in the last four novels Carter wrote between the seventies and the nineties: The Infernal Desire Machines, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist theory, it traces a development in Carter’s fiction that moves from the pessimistic negation of a self-determined female corporeality to the assertion of the female body as a powerful site of alterity.
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